What have you done to your car today?
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Southwestz4
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Fitted led strip boot light
Took it to its MOT; failed. The front right calliper is binding, which I first noticed and suspected yesterday due to a small vibration through the wheel and an ever so slight pull to the right. Not ideal, but not a big deal either after 15 years. Compliments all round from the mechs otherwise, so the Z’s in good hands. New calliper ordered and will be replaced first thing Monday morning
barnesyboy
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Two things today.
Had the underside of my 05 treated by rust busters who provide a rust prevention treatment. Seemed like a good idea. Time will tell.
Secondly, for what feels like a milestone, I finally got the dreaded transport mode deleted. Two cables down and no luck with INPA I rashly took a risky purchase off a Chinese obd scanner site. To my amazement a Foxwell 530 actually arrived. Still convinced it would be a knock off the fact it registered was equally good news. Good to go with the BMW addon I plugged and found the delete transport mode option. Finally I can turn the blower up and down and demist the rear.
Had the underside of my 05 treated by rust busters who provide a rust prevention treatment. Seemed like a good idea. Time will tell.
Secondly, for what feels like a milestone, I finally got the dreaded transport mode deleted. Two cables down and no luck with INPA I rashly took a risky purchase off a Chinese obd scanner site. To my amazement a Foxwell 530 actually arrived. Still convinced it would be a knock off the fact it registered was equally good news. Good to go with the BMW addon I plugged and found the delete transport mode option. Finally I can turn the blower up and down and demist the rear.
Put it all back together underneath following the clutch, flywheel and associated parts.
The only thing I am not happy with is I can not find an O2 post cat sensor anywhere, I replace one in the summer and have now replace the front 2 and wanted to replace the 4th one a post cat O2 sensor Bosch appear to have stopped making or supplying them other makes are not the right length cable and today I found that the plugs are different, I was aware that there is a short and long one but the plugs are different as well.
Main dealers are a large increase in price for the same thing but may end up there
In live data the voltage seams to drop out then return so it is not in the best condition and this brings on a warning light.
The only thing I am not happy with is I can not find an O2 post cat sensor anywhere, I replace one in the summer and have now replace the front 2 and wanted to replace the 4th one a post cat O2 sensor Bosch appear to have stopped making or supplying them other makes are not the right length cable and today I found that the plugs are different, I was aware that there is a short and long one but the plugs are different as well.
Main dealers are a large increase in price for the same thing but may end up there
In live data the voltage seams to drop out then return so it is not in the best condition and this brings on a warning light.
despite the bad weather over the weekend we still made it to Donnington and showed people what the Z4 could do (whilst being careful due to weather conditions).
https://youtu.be/6jkC7EcJwjw
https://youtu.be/6jkC7EcJwjw
Barty said:
Also needed a new one recently (also for a coupe living in the Netherlands :wink: ), albeit it my left rear caliper being somewhat stuck. Luckily not in relation to an MOT.
My first idea being the same as yours; no biggie after almost 14 years / 195.000 kilometres.
Did you just fit one new caliper? I as advised to replace both calipers on the same axis simultaneously (both by the AA and my fully Z3/Z4 oriented indy), which advice I took.
